New Nation, 10 April 1977

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  • 10 1 Sunday Nation APRIL 10. 1977 30 CENTS M.C.(P) NO. 261/1/77
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    • 52 1 SINGAPORE GIRL: The one they don't show Page 9 Chinatown grenade man dies Full story in Page 2 Vietnam) dies again (Pt.2) Page 8 Parents who reject Tamil learning. Page 4 Trudeaus agree to trial separation Page 2 Paik Choo on winning S'pore Sweep Page 19 Squash: S'pore beat Malaysia
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    • 321 1 TT" 3964 ORIS SWISS Worldwide Fully Guaranteed ORLD TIME CO LTD Songs to call our own Meet Mary Tan, composer of Pretty Island Page 10 Kim Song tells story behind p reWorld Cup success Back Page WORLDId What happen* to ex-air stewardesses? Air-stewardesses live in jet-set style on a high
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  • 246 2 TIE DAP said yesterday that there was no necessity for a signature campaign to "save" Datuk Hajl Harun Idrls now as the entire matter of Harun being corrupt or not was In the hands of the courts. In a statement Issued yesterday, the DAP national
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  • 219 2 rE Oovernment has Introduced new rules to plug loopholes In the regulations governing Additional Registration Fee concessions (or taxis. They are to prevent motorists from first registering their vehicles as taxis to enjoy the conc e s s ionary ARF
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  • 188 2 UPI Russians have developed a "high- energy beam" like a laser "which disintegrates anything which enters its path," a London newspaper said yesterday. When directed from earth's surface (it) can destroy incoming missiles and satellites together with their nuclear warheads," said the Daily Telegraph in a
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  • 80 2 LAST week Sunday Nation quoted in three paragraphs Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's reference to the Singapore Stock Exchange Committee. The report inadvertently left out these sentences In the Prime Minister's speech to the Law Society on March 26: "I said this on March 21, 1970.
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  • 27 2 Reuter PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos yesterday denied as rumour mongerlng speculation that the central bank was planning to close down some more Philippine commercial banks. Reuter.
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  • 163 2 AP SYRIA is trying to work out a ceasefire between warring rightwing Christian forces and Palestinian guerillas In south Lebanese regions bordering Israel, Christian sources said yesterday. Word of the Syrian initiative came after guerillas declared they had orders to break a safety
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  • 360 2 A SUSPECTED subversive element died in Kuala Lumpur General Hospital early yesterday hours after his hand was blown off by a hand grenade he tried to throw at three pursuing policemen in Jalan Petaling Chinatown. He was identified by police there as Beh Seng Huat, 25,
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  • 189 2 UPI pRIME Minister Pierre Trudeau and his 28-year-old wife Margaret have agreed to a 90-day trial separation .to decide what to do with ,their six-year marriage, a longtime friend of Margaret's said on Friday. This does not mean that they are separating permanently, they
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  • 295 2 Reuter pRESIDENT Carter has said he is optimistic that the US and the Soviet Union will overcome major differences and negotiate strategic arms curbs. On arriving in Calhoun, Georgia, on Friday night (or an Easter holiday. he told reporters that despite the breakdown of US-Soviet talks
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  • 133 3 LAWYER Francis Khoo Kah Slang, implicated by Q. Raman in his statement and wanted for questioning by the Internal Security Department, is in London. Mr. Khoo, 29, was named by detained lawyer O. Raman in the latter's statement of Feb. 12 on pro-communist activities.
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  • 131 3 Reuter LAOTIAN rebels have captured an Island in the Mekong River separating Thailand and Laos 10 km from Vientiane, officials said yesterday. Reliable western diplomats in telephone con versations from the Laotian capital said they were told by the Laotian Foreign Ministry that a "note on
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  • 181 3 Reuter A SPORTS car billed as one to revolutionise the automobile Industry reached the end of the road when its statuesque blonde woman promoter was sentenced to a term in a men's Jail. The Dale car, a lightweight plastic threewheeler, was as indestructible
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  • 45 3 Reuter About half the 35 fishing boats caught in a fierce storm In the bay of Bengal last Friday returned to port, but a search for 19 boats still unaccounted for is continuing. Officials said more than 100 fishermen are missing. Reuter.
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  • 405 3 US advised on new bases negotiations with Manila AP A US Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff report suggests that the US could abandon Clark air base in the Philippines if the price gets too high in negotiations with the Philippine government for a new
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  • 147 3 Reuter AP PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday me US and Japan can lead the world in closing wide gaps between developed and underdeveloped countries and lessen tensions that threaten international peace and stability. He was speaking at a get-together of US Japanese and Filipino
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  • 322 3 lIIS two daughters n had seen both their mother and grandmother having extra- marital affairs. He feared they would grow up promiscuous. While on a trip to Scotland for they wanted to see snow their father gassed them with his car's exhaust system.
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  • 81 4 AREFUBE Incineration plant capable of generating electrical energy Is being built at Ulu Pandan, Mr. Daniel Wong, head of the engineering services department of the Environment Ministry, said yesterday. In a paper presented to the engineering convention on energy at Shangri-La Hotel. he said: "It must be
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  • 423 4 pERTAIN Englisheducated Indian parents came under fire yesterday for looking down upon Tamil in a supercilious fashion. This attitude, said NTUC secretary general Devan Nalr, "is cause for both sorrow and contempt. for it is an Indication of the extent of deculturatlon they have themselves suffered."
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  • 170 4 AT least 12 people were reported killed yesterday In the worst antigovernment riots in Lahore since the Opposition launched a mass protest movement against Prime Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto. Usually reliable sources, reporting the deaths, said most of the victims had
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  • 179 4 AP AMONG the purged "Oang of Four," Wang Hung-Wen led a most colourful and decadent life, a Hong Kong newspaper reported yesterday. The Chinese language, independent Min Pao. taid Wang, a former textile worker, had a palatial house in Peking and a
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  • 76 4 AP Jesus Christ was a self-confessed failure spurned by his own family, and In the end. by most of his disciples, according to a new book by a distinguished British scholar. Jesus was not the "meek and mild" crea- ture often portrayed, but was stormy and passionate
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  • THE WORLD YESTERDAY
    • 84 4 AP THE Vietnamese Government has ruled that separate laws passed for northern and southern Vietnam will remain in effect until a new legal code for the entire country is formulated, the Vietnam News Agency said yesterday. The laws still in force include those passed by the
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    • 62 4 AP AMERICA'S steellabour negotiators are putting the final touches on a new contract that sources say includes a breakthrough towards meeting the union's goal of providing steel workers with lifetime job guarantees. Top officials of the United Steelworkers Union predicted that they would have a complete contract
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    • 78 4 AP Syrian President Hafez Assad will visit the Soviet Union in the second half of this month, Pravda announced. He was last in Moscow for three days in October 1975. Last May. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosy g 1 n visited Syria, and it was while he was
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    • 72 4 A GRASS cutter with a "shocking" record of 12 previous convictions, was yesterday sentenced to preventive detention for 10 years plus 12 strokes of the rotan for robbing and stealing $77,000 in property from homes and offices. Hashim bin Bakar, 47. who started his crime career at 15.
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    • 46 4 Reuter ANGOLA has condemned the despatch of Moroccan troops to Zaire and reaffirmed that it has nothing to do with what It calls a provincial liberation struggle against the arbitrary power of Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko, according to a London report. Reuter.
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    • 47 4 THE trumpet interchange at Eng Neo Avenue will be opened today to ease traffic along Bukit Timah Road and Dunearn Road. The PWD had been working on the $2.2 million protect of the PanIsland Expressway from Adam Road to Jalan Anak Bulrtt last October.
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    • 39 4 UPI THE Soviet Union will begin constructioii of a nuclear power station on Cuba this year which will Increase the island's power generating capacity by 50 per cent, the Tass news agency said in Moscow. UPI.
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    • 33 4 Reuter THE Japanese Cabinet yesterday approved a draft Bill designed to give the governmental Fair Trade Commission power to break up monopolies. the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said.—Reuter.
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    • 33 4 A JOINT meeting of the Lao government and the Supreme People's Assembly has approved the country's 1977 budget, in which economic development gets 54 per cent of the outlay.
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    • 39 4 AP POLICE arrested 14 demonstrators when they attempted to block entrances to the Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Armed Forces. Another 40, also protesting against nuclear weapons, stationed themselves outside the Pentagon with placards urging disarmament.
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    • 86 4 UPI POPE Paul VI neared the end of taking Holy Week observances with an Easter-eve vigil yesterday in Vatican City after carrying a wooden cross through the rain among Rome's pagan ruins in a Good Friday procession. The 79-year-old Pontiff, who suffers from an arthritic condition that makes
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    • 57 4 Reuter AMERICAN SR-71 spy planes overflew Cuban territory 17 times during the administration of former President Gerald Ford, according to Cuban Armed Forces minister Raul Castro. He said the overflights started on September 26. 1974 and the last one was on Jan. II this year, nine
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  • 326 5 Agencies ISRAELI Defence Minister Shimon Peres plans to offer Yigal Allon the No. 2 spot if the Foreign Minister will give up his bid to take control of Israel's battered Labour Party. Israeli Radio said yesterday. Supporters of both candidates had spent
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  • 172 5 Reuter THE Federation of Asean -i. Shippers' Councils (FASC) has agreed to discuss with the Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC) in Singap ore on April 19 FEFC's proposed 13.75 per cent general freight rate Increase from July 1 this year, It was announced
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  • 164 5 Reuter THE Israeli reporter whose disclosures ended Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's political career views the outcome with a mixture of pride and sadness. Dan Margalit. Washington correspondent of the independent morning newspaper Haaretz, proved through investigative digging that Rabin and his wife maintained a
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  • 217 5 Carter s doing it wrong N-energy chief Reuter BRITAIN'S atomic energy chief, Sir John Hill, has attacked President Carter's nuclear Initiative as likely to affect energy costs without halting the spread of atomic weapons. "I believe President Carter Is going about it the wrong way." said Sir John, whose Atomic
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  • 115 5 UPI /COLLEGE students who V; drink beerwwhinl n studying should have a few more before taking their exams, a scientist told a Federation of American Societies for Experimental oiology meeting in Chicago on Friday. Dr. Ronald C. Petersen said tests conducted on US army volunteers Indicated that
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  • 268 6 COMMENT Singaporeans have always been at a loss when asked to sing typically Singapore songs. Sad to say. we really do not nave any. The National Theatre Trust Jointly with RTS, has organised lyric and song writing competitions in an effort to remedy this since 1975
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  • 706 6 She may make a comeback yet, says Sunanda Datta Ray Observer ASKED for her reaction to the Congress Party's rout, Mrs. Indira Gandhi replied with an enigmatic "wait and see, things can change." But whether this resourceful and resilent woman,
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    • 171 6 TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. YESTERDAY'S k TRADITION. SEIKO. THE QUALITY WATCH f OF TODAY. 7025-5010 Se.ko started out rn«king watches with uncompromising ideals like pride in workmanship and dedication to a hiflh standard of excellence. At our technical knowledge and expertise grew, we developed a micro-technology far ahead of its time. We
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    • 29 6 "THAT 4 o)K> iuo*Rßcr ear Ha IS 3UR IF tue R*)T Rj6KTS <3F < iuf uoeuai SOPRXT tie oj£my sp/es TH6 RI6HS SPW OF ML. •Jf SPi^> SHUI, LWOJ PE£
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  • 324 7  -  GLORIA CHANDY I'VE always been of the opinion that men have a much better approach when it comes to playing games. So I've seen a couple of brawls on the football field, but usually the attitude is that a game's a game and
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  • 413 7 This shop spoils all the PR in the world I'VE always been rather Impressed with this particular shopping complex in Singapore which Is a constant hive of activity and whose advertising campaigns never fail to attract. As far as shoppers are concerned the
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  • 211 7 rIS encouraging to learn that prayers don't always fall on deaf ears, some of mine have at least been answered. I've just received a lovely letter from the publicity team of the Stage Club, who've informed me that at last (though admittedly for
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  • 179 7 AS THOUGH impersonating a police officer isn't bad enough, the bomb-hoax ckller, who has been responsible for cancelling the show in several nightclubs of late, has also upset hundreds of people with his false alarms. It Is either a sick mind or
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  • 175 7 A few un f or tunate tourists have recently had to leave Singapore with a rather bad impression of a particular tourist attraction If Bugis Street can be called one. The place is obviously the most popular tourist street in the
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  • 2207 8 'In the new economic zones, life was awful' Part Two of a Jesuit priest's detailed account of life and death for the South Vietnamese under the new communist regime that took over on April 30. 1975; Father Andre Gelinas kept day-to-day notes on the changing life
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  • Article, Illustration
    608 9 She's warm, soft and gracious in the SIA ad, but there's another kind of girl—with a strange sense of what makes a come-on! If you ask me... IT STARTED me K thinking at a public swimming pool. There were three young and attractive girls beside me. I had
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  • 2020 10 / 11 Stop beating the patriotic drum, say the judges of the national song-writing contest. TAN WANG JOO reports LOT of sentimental public rubbish is being written in the name.of songs with a local flavour. Dyed in purple and geranium—pr is it frangipanni-scented SPR doesn't make good prose and
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  • 385 10 / 11 A HUSBAND and wife runnerup entry, The Pair Shore of Singapore, is engagingly typical of the couple, say friends who know them. Mrs. Oon Siew Llan wrote the score. Her doctor husband, Chong Lin,
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  • 344 10 / 11 Where do I go when I'm lonely? What do I do when I'm sad? I know I shouldn't be foolish, I know I shouldn't do bad. Wand'ring along the corridor, Looking down to the ground. Heaven help me in what I do, But what
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  • 1139 10 / 11 Ex-pastor sings and composes CO IN CI DENTALLY or not, the prize-wipners interviewed here are solidly middleclass. To afford the formal musical training to compose songs or the time to write verse, that kind of background is an advantage, if not a necessity, it
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    • 1068 12 Sunday Nation Your 12-page TV pullout Pick of the week MURRAY DALE (DOMINIC), BRIAN'BLESSED AND HIL! NEW SERIES: BOY strips him of all valuables DOMINIC on Tuesday, Ch. 5 and means of identificaat 6.08 p.m. in COLOUR tion, and leaves him to the Mutiny, shipwreck, the vullur e D s
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    • 350 12 ANTHONY NEWLEY rest seem to have ley shines like a poured their hearts beacon of bright into it. In fact, one light in sordid writer said, "New- Soho." NEW SERIES: DANGERFREAKS on Friday, Ch. 5 at 11.05 p.m. in COLOUR Fast action-packed series on people who court danger in their
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    • 1217 13 MONDAY Lenco LENCO TURNTABLES Balance perfectly on Swiss precision engineering 3.00 P.M. Open 3.03 Kudumba Malar (r) 3.30 Diary Of Events (T) 3.35 General Hospital 4.1 S A PLACE TO LIVE: BmM« the Seaside 4,30 Intermission 6.05 Open 6.08 De&mber Bride: Texas Show (Ist of 2) ••30 NEWS IN BRIEF
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    • 126 16 vi The rfloongate Collection ol folktales from the Orient The Orient abounds in folktales and myths, some dating to the children of the world. Every story is re-told ir back thousands of years. Many of these tales remain simple English, suitable for 7 to 9-year-olds. Brillian unknown to the rest
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  • Page 17 / 18 Miscellaneous
    • 309 17 / 18 F r I RI—I IF «.V t .<*>■: \+< imm if w JOB SbttfiMM r .5 mam W y/ro. R**? A \t/. (a I IMPLORE NOU YA MEAN I TO REFRAIN FROM CARRY1IMG THROW THIS OUT YOUR SNOWBALL AT v NEFARIOUS. \L BUTCH? INTENT/ IV A? *I pr ILL S
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 367 19 GARTH 2 m ExS^v^ BROKER'S TALK WITH THOGtM FELLOWS LUMIERE RND GARTH/ M I vv BUPPD6E SHE'S BEEN KIPPING >OU ALONG/ BRINKER? -y iSBi ft «3 isT! :1 ifiii i. That night, in millionairess Maria Dom's London penthouse... 4i MARIR PORN IS R GOOD WOMAN R BENEFRCTOR TO RLL MANKIND
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  • 731 20  -  Pipedreams of all of us hoping to win the Singapore Sweep HUMOUR Paik Choo "/\NCE again I misv sed the first prize in the Singapore S we e p," said my friend Bernadette over our bungkus lunch (economy kon loh mee). "Because I didn't buy a ticket."
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  • 175 20 rE Public Utilities Board saved $26.5 million from 1973 to the end of last year because of improved operational efficiency, a spokesman said on Thursday. Less fuelling around? A REPORT from Peking on Wednesday said that North Korea had officially declared itself a "paradise". A Tokyo report said
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  • 289 20  -  By Sir John Betjeman Between ourselves Between you, me and the rest of the world. Can I help you? What the heil are you doing here? Go away. Carefully considered I've not had time to read it. Computerised Abolished. Correct me if I'm wrong Don't contradict. Everyone's
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  • 348 20 Off the Record by CKT rpHE ancient Greeks, you may be sure, started a lot more balls rolling than are accounted. Decidedly a long i ho?, but did they also lay down the decree of the
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  • 576 21 Light burst from the four corners of the room and Mr. Soul was upon us, reports Jean Rook |\AVID Soul's voice may not reach heaven without a push. But the rest of him has wings. Recently I was Invited to look at Mr Soul—but not
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  • 793 21  -  says Walter Mirisch, the producer behind both By DEREK MALCOLM Guardian npHE Battle of MidA way, which took place six months after Pearl Harbour in June, 1942, and effectively prevented further Japanese exp a n slon in the Pacific,
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  • 597 22  -  THIS PUT-TOGETHER MAY BE INDULGENCE OF YESTERYEAR,. BUT IT NEED NOT s BE ENTERTAINMENT jdjjjjj By I Edgar Koh |T VVOUIJ) naturally lx* 100 much to expect that THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, Part 2 (coming to Orchard) would undo what its forerunner has achieved—reinforcing the myth that those were
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  • 404 22 K I k l<i\l Milli IH k 1 Milt? r<HI PAO RU, the child star who cried her way into the hearts of mllliQns of fllmgoers in Asia, seems to have grown out of show business all too quickly. Like many other
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  • 811 23  -  THE MIND POSSESSED, by William Sargant (Pan). Book Page Alex Josey r»AN a person be possessed by evil spirits? Can this evii be exorcised? Dr. William Bargant, famous psychiatrist, says yes to both questions. But, he hasten* to add, his conclusion at the end of
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  • 343 23 Mussolini climbed high— to get away from his wife! MY TRUTH, by Edda Mussolini Ciano, as told to Albert Zorca (Weidenfeld). Express OEHIND the sucu cessful man is the woman who has spurred him on. So goes the legend, and Mussolini's daughter Edda believes her father would never have become
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  • 326 23 TYELATH, you aacerquickly, had been Inflicted by a blunt Instrument within the past hour. You carefully rolled the body of your old friend. Hugh Clark, on its back. Something glinted within the red carnation in Clark's lapel. You recognised the object instantly—a gold stater of Croesus—a
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  • 105 23  -  Hugh Mabbett Editor, Borneo Bulletin A PRINTER'S error in your reprinted version of my review of The Politics of Federalism, which first appr.trcd in the Borneo Bulletin, made meaningless a 'passage about how the 1969 emergency had farreaching effects on Sabah. A by-product of the emergency was that
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  • 462 23  -  THE LIFE AND EXTRA-ORDINARY ADVENTURES OF PRIVATE IVAN CHONKIN, by Vladimir Voinovich translated by Richard Lourie (Cape). By Edward Crankshaw Observer T*HE history of this book is characteristic of our times. It was first announced in Novy Mir in 1963 (the year after the
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  • 604 24  -  By Eric Cooper CINGAPORE swamped Malaysia by five matches to nil In the annual squaah International played at the Tanglln Club courts yesterday. A total of only three hours was all that was required for the fitter home players to chalk up their third
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    • 153 24 r PRODUCT MANAGER FAST-MOVING CONSUMER GOODS Established company dlstrlbytlng a large and diverse range of consumer products In Singapore seeks to appoint a Product Manager with minimum two years experience In development of marketing plans, advertising and promotion planning, development of new products from their Inception. The successful candidate will
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  • 738 25 PLAYERS WHO FAKE INJURY CAN INCITE A CROWD, SAYS DR TAN INSIDE TRACK rvESPITE its money- spinning power and the fervour of its participants and followers, soccer in Singapore is only a sport. However, more and more people tend to lose sight of this fact
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  • 1523 25 The Chinese table tennis bets have two quite different surfaces on either side. On one side, the rubber pimples stick out; on the other, they go in. Thus one side produces speed; the other side kills it. They switch the sides of their bet during rallies, so
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  • 734 26  -  tALZ Alfred Tong rrHE BLTA's poliA cy of encouraging local clubs to play a bigger role by organising tournaments (with SLTA lending a helping hand) received a slight knock when the Tanglin Club declined to run this year's Open Claycourt event. It should be
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  • 221 26 WHERE were no changes in the leaderA ship of the various Men's grades this week. In C grade, SAFSA consolidated their position at the top by beating PSA 3-2. PSA are comfortably leading the pack in D grade, while In E grade, a close fight
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  • 628 26  -  ilUij' Ernest Frida WHILE most golfers at his age would be contemplating on retiring from competitive golf, 45-year-old Gordon Seow, on the other hand is playing with renewed vigour. Gordon of BICC pro duced his best golf In 15 years last Sunday when he ahot a
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    • 798 26 Horoscopes Capricorn Dec. 21-Jan. 19: Realising that you are In a depressed mood, you had better keep to yoursell so as not to depress those around you too. If you pay too much attention to opposition you will never get very far with your plans. You may be disappointed when
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  • 573 27  -  By Lim Kok Ann ONE of the sad things about sport is the way politics has Interfered with the organisation of events aimed at promoting friendship between nations. A case in point was the defection of Viktor Korchnoy of the Soviet Union
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  • 447 27  -  J.iiIJJJ'J'UJ I Gerry Chan IT AS Rudy Hartono's n retreat from competitive badminton created a vacuum that may end Indonesia's winning streak in international tournaments? Two humiliating defeats in the first quarter of this year against the Chinese and the Danes—have caused great worry in this
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  • 1163 28  -  UNCERTAIN WAITING CAN DISCOURAGE ATHLETES Tan Kim Seng ASIAN athletics, already way down In comparison to world standards, have suffered another setback with the cancellation of the Third Asian championships and the uncertain fate of the 1978 Asian Games. The need for Asian ath!etea
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  • 419 28 JaHJJiJ 1T WILL not be long before a black player wears an England Jersey in a full international. And the man who is likely to make history is Laurie Cun n i n gham, once from Second Division Orient, but now having
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  • 613 28  -  Us-mii Joyce Tan npHE SWNA Business A Houses League ended last week with the remaining matches played off over the weekend. There will be a break for one week before activity picks up again with the first lnterconstituency tournament scheduled to begin on April
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  • 1001 29 'I DON'T WANT TO BECOME A MACHINE. MY FREEDOM IS IMPORTANT' Los Angeles Times VILAS' manner of dressing alone would set him apart from most tennis pros, who are mostly conservative types in a traditionbound game with little more on their minds than bonus points, big
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  • 583 29  -  Brian Miller THE Singapore Hockey Association's league will include a Premier Division this year instead of the usual three divisions. This latest section will cater for the cream of local clubs and, hopefully, the standard of play will be higher. SHA secretary S. Yogarajah,
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  • 846 30 A NTI Cor r u ptlon A with bang-in-Oform Jockey Leslie Khoo astride scored a good win in Race Three at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Despite hanging in badly In the final furlong. Jockey Khoo got Antl Corruption going to beat Houston Ranger, ridden
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  • 327 30 Reuter JIMMY Connors and Ilie Nastase were preparing for their US$lOO,OOO winnert a k e a 11 World Championship Tennis match today but Connors had another tournament on his mind. "I don't know If I'm going to play at Wimbledon or not." he said. "Right now.
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  • 142 30 Reuter SWEDEN'S BJorn Waldebaard and Hans Thorszellus, red-eyed and soaked, drove their mudspattered British Ford Escort into Nairobi yesterday to lead the Silver Jubilee Safari rally at the half way stage. Kenya's Vic Preston and John Lyall, reported leading the rally on
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  • 238 30 Reuter Tom Watson and Rod Funseth were the co leaders at 139 going into yesterday's third round of the Masters golf tournament, but about 20 other players were well within striking distance. How quickly a golfer's fortunes can change was demonstrated by firstround leader Hubert Oreen,
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  • 229 30 AP rpHE Philippines and Ireland are favoured as sites for the proposed first World Games in 1979, the newspaper Times Journal reported. Quoting secretary-gene-ral Oscar State of the General Assembly of International Sports Federations (GAIF), the newspaper said there were earnest bids from Hong Kong,
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  • 170 30 Reuter r THE British Lawn Tennis Association has rejected an appeal from Minister of Sport Denis Howell to ban South Africa from the women's Federation Cup team competition in Eastbo urn e, England, next June. Association secretary Peter Johns said Mr. Howell had protested
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  • 191 31 By SCRUTINEER JAZZY is back In striking form, and I rate his chances highly In the Wllayah Stakes (Race 5) over 1200 m for Class 2 Division 1 sprinters at Kuala Lumpur today. The six-year-old English gelding by Roan Rocket started four times this year
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  • 299 32 SPORTS NATION ONLY a handful of paying spectators turned up at Oeylang Stadium yesterday to see Changi United edge Ponggol 3-2 thus adding more fuel to Changl's fury at the way the venue was selected for this match. Changi had, of course, been angry at
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  • 522 32  -  THE QUAH KIM SONG COLUMN QUAH KIM SONG 'TENSION on the pitch and gaiety on the galleries that about sums up the general mood during the recent World Cup preliminaries held here. What went on behind the scenes was even more emotion-charged than any of
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  • 516 32 CINGAPORE continue their search for Malaysia Cup glory with a tough away assignment at (klckoff 7 p.m.) when Seremban tonight they tackle Negri Sembllan. However, the match will not be any tougher than having to play Negri at their Station Padang pitch. Negri's
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